It’s only a man’s pants. But you want to look

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The State doesn’t want to peer into everyone’s private lives, we do. It’s time we admitted it

It is, of course, very amusing that the American politician who posted a picture of his own bulging briefs on Twitter has a surname that is almost both a type of sausage and US slang for “penis”. This, I would not dispute. Writing about the travails of Congressman Anthony Weiner, you don’t even need to work at the smutty jokes. They just rise up, all by themselves, rendering your column disgusting. (See?) But more interesting than the many who have been sniggering, I’d contend, are the many who haven’t been at all.